If your place of employment was to have a repair kit (held at reception to prevent vandalism/people wandering off with the contents and not returning them), what would you want to see in it?
I was thinking a track pump, some patches, GT85, tyre levers and allen keys. Anything else? I reckon people competent enough to use something like a chain breaker would usually carry one with them.
Depending on bike ridden I don't always carry the full toolkit. I have been approached before to repair a bike on a day I've driven in, so had no tools.
I'd prefer a workplace toolkit to contain everything, even if I didn't intend to use it.
To the above I'd add:-
- oil (3-in-1) as GT85 shouldn't be used on a chain <ed: let's leave the chain lube out of this>
- Headset spanners (Across my whole fleet I have NO bikes with Aheads)
- Hammer (and punch/drift?)
- Pliers
- knife
- screwdriver (flat and philips)
Think "emergency repair" here, and there's often a need for a hammer and punch to knock something stuck out/back into line. The same re pliers and screwdrivers (even if they're just used as a lever)
If it's a large workplace I'd also like to see a couple of brake blocks of common type (V-Brakes and Callipers) as well as a few gear and brake cables and possibly a spare chain? These components would need to be replaced the next day by the person who needed them!
If I broke a brake cable etc on the way in to work then it'd be great to be able to spend the lunch hour getting the bike back on the road instead of trying to get to a bike shop to get the parts.